Is it just me?

How am I supposed to keep up with all the games that I want to try? It seems that I regularly go through this phase wherein I peek at my game queue, realize as though for the first time that it has become unmanageably long, and become completely overwhelmed and disenchanted.

For example, just now I made the mistake of counting the games on my queue, and it numbers about 90. 90!! Being of a technical mind, instead of immediately equating that with a 'f*** ton' and recognizing the situation as utterly hopeless, I did a few rounds of mental arithmetic to come up with the following possible schedules:

• 1 game per month: 7.5 years (yikes!)

• 1 game per week: 1.7 years (better...)

• ~5 games per week: 4.5 months (no problem. I'll just quit my job.)

And just for academic purposes:

• 1 game per hour: 3.75 days

At which point I realize that the situation is utterly hopeless. So you can see the problem. I simply must acquire a time machine. There's no two ways about it. Actually, the other vital piece of the equation is the historical rate at which I have been able to consume games. My rough estimate is around 15 games/yr. That's based on a fairly small sample, though, and I think that I can realistically hit ~20 games/yr if I'm in stride. That's still 4.5 years to clear out 90 games. And that's not even taking into account the accumulation of any new games. I.e. that's just outflow, not net flow. Clearly I need to take some drastic action to achieve any kind of a stable situation. Normally when I get this feeling, I have the urge to overreact and carve out at least half of my list. But that's totally unsatisfactory. Those games are on there for a reason.

I'm not going to do anything drastic tonight. In fact, I think I'm going to just pick one of those games at random and play for an hour or two. Imagine that... just play a game.